Israeli troops shoot dead second child in two days.

“Israeli troops killed an 11-year-old boy in the West Bank town of Tulkarem yesterday, the second fatal shooting of Palestinian children in two days.”

The child was in a crowd, some of whom were throwing rocks at Israeli army vehicles. Seems like there should be a better way to deal with child rock throwers than killing them.

And does anyone think Ariel Sharon will not use the imminent Iraq War as cover for bulldozing Palestinians out of Israel and into other countries?

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How Iranians in L.A. mobilized to protest the mass arrests

“L.A. Persian station KIRN serves as a forum for immigrants upset by Dec. 16 detentions.

The station, KIRN-AM (670), canceled its programming to focus on the registration, which some callers likened to the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. The station spearheaded a protest rally outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles. It took calls from jailed immigrants.

Station representatives said they preempted programming to talk about the detention of certain Middle Eastern immigrants because they wanted to be the prime source of news for the Iranian community. “

Notably, KIRN turned out 3,000 to protest at the Federal Building the day after the mass detentions by the INS - an impressive mobilization done very quickly.

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Lottery for free Rolling Stones concert tickets

To be held in L.A. in Feb. as a benefit to end global warming

http://www.nrdcstonesconcert.org/

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Important paranoia alert!

The FBI has a new way of tracking terrorists. Requires JavaScript. [Privacy Digest]

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People get ready

Saudi Arabia said to assure U.S. on use of bases.

Air, land, sea troops being sent to Gulf.

We’ll be war by the end of Jan. or early Feb. So - “don’t mourn, organize”

And some, of course, are doing just that!

‘Human shields’ head for Iraq

“A convoy of anti-war activists, likely to include dozens of British volunteers, will leave London next month to act as human shields protecting strategic sites in Iraq.

The convoy to Baghdad is being organised by former US marine Kenneth Nichols, who served in the first Gulf war and won a combat medal but has now become a vociferous opponent of another Gulf conflict.”

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